Team Pete groups join to support deployed Airmen

For those deployed around the globe, even the most simple, typical creature comforts can become important when they are not accessible. To help a little bit around the holidays, three groups from Peterson Air Force Base are stepping in to share some spirit.In collaboration with the Peterson 5/6

Battlefield acupuncture allows quicker recovery time

The Air Force has always been innovative when creating new and better ways to accomplish the mission, and another new way they are paving the way is with an increasingly popular medical treatment known as "battlefield acupuncture," a form of auricular acupuncture.Acupuncture is one method of

Twins reunite aboard USS Roosevelt’s Tiger Cruise

It's often difficult to tell twins apart. They do everything together and are inseparable, but that's not the case with my twin and I. We're very different.First of all, we're brother and sister - fraternal twins. We don't even look like siblings, much less twins. After high school, I went to

CSAF Gen. Welsh explores Thule AB during Thanksgiving visit

Aragon Dining Facility serves Thanksgiving meals to Team Pete

14th Air Force Commander visits 21st Space Wing

Lt. Gen. David J. Buck, commander, 14th Air Force (Air Forces Strategic), Air Force Space Command; and commander, Joint Functional Component Command for Space, U.S. Strategic Command, made his inaugural visit to Peterson Air Force Base since taking command in August 2015.After visiting several 21st

Spreading Thanksgiving bounty

The Peterson Diamond Council led by example and demonstrated what a good wingman does around the holidays. The group of first sergeants, along with vendors from the Peterson Air Force Base Commissary, made sure Airmen of Team Pete have all the necessary components of a solid Thanksgiving meal.The

MAFFS reservists reflect on season’s surge capability, mission challenges

In early October the National Interagency Fire Center lowered the National Wildfire Preparedness level to one, its lowest level of five indicating national large fire activity had reduced to minimal levels. With this, and with what appears to be the end of hot, dry conditions in the western U.S.,

Holiday pet safety: feast or fail

The holidays have arrived. It is time to remember that pets are especially at risk for food-borne illness and foreign body ingestion.The Fort Carson Veterinary Center has started to see pets coming in with health compromise. Preventing these injuries is easier than treating them, so early

Aragon to set table for holiday tradition

Four 25-pound turkeys, four 15-pound hams, 70 pounds of mashed potatoes with gravy, three boxes of cornbread dressing, green beans with mushrooms, steamed corn, peas, glazed carrots, a salad bar, French onion soup and five different desserts, to include pumpkin pie, are on the menu this